CJK Fonts, Character Sets & Encodings. All CJK. All of the time.

Please welcome U+9FCD through U+9FE9 to the URO!

One of the accomplishments at IRG #42 last month was the addition of 29 new CJK Unified Ideographs to the URO (Unified Repertoire & Ordering), specifically from U+9FCD through U+9FE9. The first four are shown above.
The first three characters, U+9FCD through U+9FCF, were the result of a UNC (Urgently Needed Character) submission from China (IRG N1967) that included three characters from 通用规范汉字表 (Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzìbiǎo). Speaking of that standard from China, I created a revised mapping table that includes these three mappings.

The next character, U+9FD0, was the result of disunifying U+4CA4 (䲤). The simplified form remains at U+4CA4, and the traditional form whose source is Hong Kong SCS-2008 will be encoded at U+9FD0. For compatibility reasons, it makes sense for fonts that support Hong Kong SCS to map both U+4CA4 and U+9FD0 to the same glyph, at least for a small number of years.

The next five characters, U+9FD1 through U+9FD5, were the result of the UTC’s revised UNC submission (IRG N2005).